"Uh... I mean people. Beings who can name - and name themselves. It's a more all-inclusive term than - " The word he says is Andrax, the meaning she perceives is - "...human."

He stops to think. "I'd call my own tongue Trader's, or Mid-Caelii. And if we were in our own world I'd call the translation effect a Mystic enchantment?"

Said Mystic enchantment is particular about the capitalization.

"...My spells and yours work well enough here so the physics can't be that different," he concludes, shrugging. "But that may be the Fissures at work."